Brooklyn College offers fortieth season of dance.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--For forty years, Brooklyn Center Brooklyn Center, city (1990 pop. 28,887), Hennepin co., SE Minn., a residential suburb of Minneapolis; inc. 1911. It has light industry and has been marked by suburban and economic growth since the 1970s. for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC BCBC Bridgend County Borough Council (Wales, UK) BCBC British Columbia Buildings Corporation (Crown Corporation) BCBC Bituminous Concrete Base Course (Pennsylvania) ) has been offering New Yorkers a lineup of dance programs that satisfies traditionalists yet is original enough to tempt the most jaded Manhattanites. The relatively small stage of BCBC's Walt Whitman Hall, which seats 2,500, has accommodated some of the dance world's greatest stars, including Margot Fonteyn and Suzanne Farrell. Under the influence of Joel Garrick, BCBC's general manager during the 1970s, the theater also became a true showplace for American dance, and current managing director David Levenson continues Garrick's policy of introducing the best regional companies to metropolitan audiences. BCBC has been the site of numerous New York city New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. debuts, many of them memorable, by ballet companies from such cities as Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Louisville, Miami, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Tulsa, and Washington, D.C.--not to mention Chicago's Hubbard Street Dance Company. BCBC has also attracted such foreign troupes as Ballet British Columbia, Ballet du Nord, Ballet Nacional Espanol, Ballet Rambert, Cloudgate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, and Royal Ballet of Flanders, all of which chose to make their New York City debuts in Brooklyn. During the past forty years these dance companies and others, in exchange for the opportunity to put a shine on the Big Apple, have treated audiences at BCBC to more than thirty-five premieres, including works by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Choo-san Goh, Saeko Ichinohe, Royston Maldoom, Heinz Poll, Richard Tanner, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and Norbert Vesak. This does not take into account the more than 125 works that were never seen locally until they were performed at BCBC. To celebrate its distinguished history, and to continue its tradition of offering the unexpected, BCBC's 1994-95 season, which is sponsored by Independence Savings Bank savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. , will focus on black dance companies. The dance series will include performances by Philadelphia Dance Company, also known as Philadanco (October 8), the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (December 3-4), and Le Ballet National du Senegal (January 21-22). Philadanco is scheduled to perform Pacing, by Milton Myers; Dreamtime dream·time also Dream·time n. The time of the creation of the world in Australian Aboriginal mythology: "Aboriginal myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who wandered across the country in the Dreamtime . . . , by Elisa Monte; Elegy elegy, in Greek and Roman poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse (i.e., couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line). The form dates back to 7th cent. B.C. in Greece and poets such as Archilochus, Mimnermus, and Tytraeus. , by Gene Hill Sagan; and A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair, by Talley Beatty. The National Dance Company of Jamaica will present two works on Caribbean themes: Ancestral Echoes and Interconnections. And Le Ballet National Du Senegal will offer a piece called Pangols, expressing the spirit of West Africa. In the spring BCBC will host the New York City debut of Ballet Theatre de Bordeaux, now directed by former Paris Opera etoile Eric Vu An, on March 12; and a return engagement by Oakland Ballet, performing its new staging of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. by artistic director Ronn Guidi (April 1-2). |
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